My GCC is doing the SAME THING! So noisy! In the cage, out of the cage, when I'm in the room or out of the room. Ear piercing squawking! The only thing that calms him is being ON someone. I try not to allow him to be on someone when he is being loud. I don't want to send the wrong message to him. Sometimes covering his cage calms him down for a bit. He is by a window. His wings are clipped. He doesn't really show a desire to fly except when I am out of the room (i.e. folding laundry or something) then he will try to fly to find me. I change his toys on a regular basis. He will just sit there (appears to look calm) but just screeches!!! I try so hard not to address him when he gets in his screeching fits. I don't want him to think if he does that, he gets attention. BUT COME ON PIP!!!! Give it a rest!!!! He also does this "knocking" on his cage with his beak; like he is knocking on the door. ... I'm just so puzzled about what he wants.
Other than his daily screeching fits and knocking, Pip is a great bird!!! Very friendly, not nippy, very social, loves to cuddle, not jumpy or skittish. His #1 person is my 6 yo daughter and they play everything together... Barbies, Legos, homework, reading, etc. Pip also LOVES to cuddle our longhaired Dachshund! He rubs and cuddles in his fur. Our dog tolerates Pip and is very gentle with him.
What can I do!?!! One of my questions is, would him having a bird companion help? Not that I am crazy about the idea of TWO screechers, but would it help??
Well as I type this my male green cheek and my male Quaker, who are very bonded to one another, are screaming their heads off. They just sit on their T-stand (I'm on the couch right next to them, they are not paying attention to me and vise versa, they are occupying each other) and talk to each other, eat, preen each other, and they gradually get louder, and louder, and louder, and I'm sure they are competing with the TV because I'm 5 feet away from both the TV and them, and the birds are winning.
So I would definitely say that while getting your single bird a friend (friend, not mate, mine are both males) will occupy him and give him something to do beyond playing with toys, in my case the noise got sooooooo much louder! The Quaker was here first at 8 weeks old and has always been very loud and vocal, that was expected. The green cheek came along about 3-4 months later and was very quiet during his quarantine period, in fact besides a few little baby sounds when I held him or gave him scritches, he said very little. No more! The Quaker can talk very well and the green cheek tries so hard to copy him, but the talking just comes out as this scratchy, rough, screaming type of thing. I know what he's trying to say but no one else would, lol. I swear at times the two of them make my left ear drum rattle!
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We had assumed that he would most enjoy being in the family room with us where there is lots of interaction and things to see. However, we have a fairly dark home with few windows or natural light making it into the family room, so we opted to move him to our front study with natural light coming in for sunrise and visible changes when the sunsets. I'm not sure what combination of factors made this his happy place, but he does much better in this room. We tried again to move him into the family room with us a few months back and the incessant screeching screams started up again. So back to his front room with the window he went and back to loud singing and fun loving squawking he went..... however, i understand under neither of those scenarios am really telling you a story about how my conure became quiet...... but there was a distinct difference in the types of calls he was making. I also worked on redirecting screams to something taught like saying his name (mimicking the tones of saying his name, not really english) or other things like dancing.
